Lt. General William Boykin (Retired) was on with Governor Mike Huckabee last night. Boykin was the latest official to put blame on the president for giving the stand down order.
“The order to actually engage troops in a rescue operation has to come from the president unless it’s a military facility and then the commander has certain authorities. But it has to come from the president to put troops in harm’s way. Now, in that case, because we don’t know enough of the details, that could have come from the commander from the Africa command who told them to stand down. But play that all the way out, who told him not to allow them to… You are under attack, we are going to be there. That was the whole point of it. And so to say that we didn’t know enough, I don’t buy that. I think that is incredible and I think someone needs to be taken to task over it.”
Previously:
** Rep. Ann Wagner: Only President Gives the Stand Down Order (Video)
** Lt Gen Mclnerney on Benghazi Scandal: ‘There Is Only One Person Who Can Say, Stand Down – And That’s The President’ (Video)
** Father of Slain Benghazi SEAL: White House Order Was “Don’t Help Them, Let Them Die” (Video)
